First Appearance: Soulsearchers and Company #1
(Claypool Comics, June 1993)

Powers/Abilities: Extremely agile, good fighter. Armed with a magic
pole that can expand or contract to any size at will, and which responds
to her mental commands.

History: "Bridget Lockridge was a golden girl. Possessed of a mother
who wanted to live out her own dreams of glory through her daughter, Bridget's
Olympic prowess at track and field made her into a multiple Gold medal winner.
Also, Bridget's drop-dead good looks, mane of red hair, and soft Irish lilt
made her a media darling.

And then, after the Olympics, she burned out. The constant glare of the
spotlight, the pushing of her mother to accomplish impossible goals, and
the realization that her glory days were now behind her, pushed Bridget over
the edge and into a lifestyle of drink and despair. Eventually, she hit bottom
and climbed back out of the pit, but by then the public's eye was looking
elsewhere for new heroines. Bridget was forgotten. Part of her was relieved,
and part of her missed being in the spotlight.

Upon discovering herself to be flat broke (thank's to her mother's total
mismanagement of her interests), Bridget found herself wandering from menial
job, to menial job, moving on when the questions that began "Didn't you used
to be...?" became too much for her."

Bridget was hired by Arnold Q. Stanley to be the figurehead for his mystic
investigation company, Soulsearchers and Company. Her first meeting with
Baraka got her a magic pole that responds to her mental commands. Later,
when Arnold was turned into a prairie dog Bridget discovered that he had
named her as an officer of the company as part of a tax dodge - and now that
the law no longer recognises him in his new form, she was legally in charge
of the company. She continues to run the business to this day.

Comments: Created by Peter David and Richard Howell.

These days her mother present "Pulpit Patter" as Madame Bernice on the fringe
religious network Cabal-TV.